The appropriate design of server placement policies requires a deep understanding of the potential workload patterns of EC. However, EC has not seen widespread deployment yet, and thus there may not be any real data for its workloads. Instead, we perform workload analysis based on Shanghai Telecom dataset [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}, which includes communication records collected about 3042 base stations and 6236620 user requests. We believe that the workload patterns of these communication records can provide a good estimate for the workload patterns of EC.
